God the Reason: How Infinite Excellence Gives Unbreakable Faith

The universe declares the excellence of God’s perfections as the source and reason for all things, including all life, truth, science, and how we should live our lives. A world without God reduces to an impossible and absurd tragedy of death, mere ‘sound and fury, signifying nothing.’ But as God’s people we share in something great and eternal, giving us profound meaning and purpose. More

Without technical jargon and complicated formulas, God the Reason uses simple language and easy to understand illustrations to present the life-changing excellence of God's perfections and their importance for apologetics. For one, all things are impossible without the God the Scripture, while every known fact and scientific discovery declares the truth of Christian faith. And while atheists would need complete knowledge of everything in the universe and beyond to know the infinite God of the Bible does not exist, they deny Him even as they are immersed in a clear and marvelous display of His power and genius.

The infinite excellence of God's perfections provides the ultimate source and guide for knowledge about Him and the universe He created, and give us the basis of an all-encompassing, God-honoring, and soul-thrilling worldview that provides the answer to the deepest questions of life. Comfort in the face of the greatest evils, suffering, and mysteries comes not from having a specific answer and solution to every problem, but in knowing the perfect One who does. To know ourselves we must know the God who made us. To rightly live in the world, we must know Him who owns, orders, and sustains it. Apart from God, all things fall into pointless absurdity. But in a true knowledge and love of the Source and Explanation of all things we have life, meaning, and purpose, while our trivial existence gains eternal importance as part of God's purpose and plan. A right understanding of God's infinite excellence will not only immunize you against the most sophisticated arguments of unbelief, it will increase your joy, comfort and faith in Christ and Scripture.

Craig writes on various theological topics, including apologetics and Christian worldview, the theology of Jonathan Edwards, the infinite excellence and beauty of God, and the Christian life. He recently launched Pilgrim’s Rock to develop courses and other material to boost believers’ joy, comfort, and faith in Christ and Scripture, and to nurture in believers and their children a God-honoring and intellectually defensible worldview. In addition to other theology and Bible courses, Craig has taught the Unbreakable Faith course at the seminary, college, church youth and adult Sunday school level, and currently teaches the course at the Lancaster Bible College Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia. Craig received his AB in economics from Cal Berkeley, MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, and PhD in Systematic Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. He and his wife Angelica minister in Pennsylvania, where they are happy to be redeemed in Christ, to whom they owe all things, and apart from whom they are nothing.